ONLINE POKER - SITE - PokerStars

Software is excellent, there are good freeroll tournaments every few hours, and I enjoy the overall atmosphere of the pokerroom. EXCELLENT site.

EXCELLENT site, great tournaments

I have to say that I havce not played too many sites, but this is definitely the best by far.

There are so many players here, it is a royal pain to enter any of the freerolls. You are competing against 3000 people, and then the top 9 get free entry into another tournament at the end of the week. Often, this tournament is a different game than the one you beat to get to it. Needless to say, it takes a long time to play in a freeroll here. One cool thing is you can upload your own picture and everyone at the table sees it. If you are looking for freerolls, look elsewhere.

THIS IS THE BEST SITE ON THE NET. I UESED TO PLAY AT PARTYPPOKER But now i play at pokerstars because of the freerolls. I mean i won a freeroll. Then won the tourney that i got in to free. And i got a 100 dollars. Ive turned that 100 dollars into 18000. Partpoker do not have freerolls. They have multi table play money tourneys. Where if u win all u get is like 12000 dollars in playmoney. That weak. Parypoker is garbage compared to Pokerstars. JAMES P.S 4 OUT OF THE FINAL 9 AT THE 2004 WSOP CAME FROM POKERSTARS. THAT STANDS FOR SOMETHING. NEARLY HALF THE FINAL TABLE CAME FROM POKERSTARS. WHAT GREAT PLAYERS THEY HAVE.

where is a good place for freerolls? thanks in advance i like pokerstars, but they pulled my chat priv without a warning

[chelsearule1]

i have played on 10 poker sites i rate this the best one by a mile.

[chelsearule1]

i take it back i have had aq last ten times every time someone has ak every time i havent hit a queen once,then i get ak vs aj he hits jack on theriver no one ever play online for real money biggest joke online call with rubbish u hit joke.

so the site went form the best to being unplayable in 6 days?

[chelsearule1]

dont ever play on this site about 80% of the players are donks who catch lucky i raised 100 b4 the flop with ak one caller flop was 876 both checked king was the turn i bet 180 he called river was 5 he checked i checked he had 34 offsuit called 100 raise preflop with 34 and on the turn drawing dead to a 5 but if i had a 9 he would lose what a donk.

[Vicfats]

Maybe that is a lesson to quit calling raises with aq which I'm sure you did at least a couple of those times

[bad_dog76]

LOL! Some of the worst players in the world reside right here at pokerstars. I decided to leave this joke of a site after three consecutive awful beats in 2 tournaments.

I had around 7,000 chips another player had about 800 and one other had around 6,000. Blinds are 200/400. I raise BB to 1,500 player with 800 goes all in, the other player raises me to 3,000. I go all in, he calls has Q10. Flop comes Q 9 6 turn 10 river 3. So i lose most of my stack. left with about 1,000 chips I'm dealt JJ I go all in only to be called by someone with 9 10. Flop comes A 10 A turn 9 River 10 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! The guy has literally no outs but some how catches on the river.

Finally the last tourney I played in, the blinds were 100/200 I had around 2,800 player to my left had 3,200. I'm dealt pocket 10's he goes all in I call. He has 76. Flop comes A 3 5 turn 9 river 4.

I know bad beats are a part of the game but when I lose three consecutive hands where I'm a good 87% to win, that's a little strange to me.

[bad_dog76]

To follow up om this, I emailed pokerstars about these ridiculous beats and all they say is people run in bad luck streaks. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Are you kidding me? That's your excuse? Three times in a row where I have an overpair to 2 undercards and I lose. It's bad luck? Sorry bad luck is losing one of those three hands (KK vs. Q10) (JJ vs 910) (10 10 vs 76) I wanna know what the odds are of losing those hands 3 times in a row?

The guy told me if I saw a pattern there'd be a problem and that I should be happy that I lost those hands. He said if I won those hands everytime there would be a problem? What?

On another note, I was playing in tournament where 2 people were telling each other their hands so they wouldn't bet into each other. This was when there was 4 of us left. It was pretty obvious they wanted it to come down to those 2. Telling each other "I hit it" or I have a Ks when 4 spades were on the board. I emailed them about this as well and they told me it takes weeks to process cheating.
Again what? How hard is it for them to look at the tournament chat,when I give them the tournament number and the two players names involved, and see they were telling each other their hands. Nothing will be done. They're all talk and no action. It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors

I had a few bucks left in this account so I decided to play a couple of SNG multi table tourneys. ABout half way through I have 2,700 chips guy to my right has 3,200. I'm dealt J10 in the BB flop comes J 10 6. He bets 500 I go all in he calls with Q8 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Turn Q RIVER 9 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Of course anyone good player would call over 80% of their stack with a gut shot str8 draw. Next tourney is even better. 15 of us left. I have 4,500 in chips guy to my right has 8,500. I'm dealt A7 call the BB. Flop comes 227. He bets 2000 I go all, he calls. HE HAS KQ no draw, no pair but of course on this joke of a site he hits a King on the river. If you're a DONKEY or a FISH this is the site for you. Constantly rewarded for awful play. It's no wonder that NO PRO represents their site. Play at Full Tilt much, much better site!

[bad_dog76]

That sounds about right dude. One other thing, since they told me abour their RNG being "legit" and only if I saw patterns should I be concerned well I started to notice a pattern. Almost anytime someone goes all in preflop with a pocket pair (Not aces) against someone with an ace and ace will hit the board. I told them about this and they sent me my hands history LOL. They said in coin flip situations I won 8 out of the last 14 hands. What does that have to do with my question? Coin flips could be 22 vs 76. They avoided it at all costs. It had gotten so predictible I had pocket 9's one hand and just called the BB someone then proceeded to go all in, I folded, then predicted the flop would come AKQ. It came AKQ. 2 hands later I saw someone go all in with KK vs A3. I then predicted an ace would hit the board, like clockwork, flop came A 3 9, so as usual pocket kings were no good. I'd strongly suggest not playing here but if you choose to, when you call a preflop all in with two 10's you better hope you're not up against an ace or you'll lose.

[smoke9]

I just lost 3 times with pocket aces (all in preflop) in 1 tourney on PokerStars... NOT BS. I am so distrought over it I did a search and found this site. Reading the posts has somewhat consoled me. In the tourney, I had built my stack early on to about 3500, when I get AA. Guy goes all in for around 2000, I call, he has QQ. He rivers a Q. OKAY well it happens right? Pocket aces CAN lose. You are ONLY a FOUR TO ONE FAVORITE over another pocket pair before the flop, but it can happen. But if I get them again, watch out haha because surely they will not lose again (uhm...WRONG). Now I build my stack back to about 4000 by a half hour into the tourney. I am playing very well and feeling good. I have put the loss with rockets behind me like you should. You have to forget about that bs. Well, I get AA on the button. Guy in early position goes ALL IN with about 2800. Boom I got you boy HAHA woohoo. I can't fold this of course, so I call and he shows 88. Oh I'm gonna whoop up on those snowmen YESS. First card on the flop is an 8. No, an ace does not come to save me. So, stunned, I'm down to like 1200 when I should have been chip leader of the whole tourney right now. OK, wow, well I don't even want rockets now haha *grumble*..... But of course I do AGAIN about 40 mins into the tourney. I have about 1100 in chips left, I go all in, get called by JJ. Flop is 4 K Q. Turn is 9. River is 10. So I lost with pocket aces 3 times within like 40 mins and it took me out of an otherwise successful tourney. I have never gotten beat twice with pocket aces in whole day of playing on other sites. And I took a sh*tload of unbelievable beats on PokerStars back in late '05 so I stopped playing there, but never posted on a forum about it because I thought it was a fluke. I vowed I would never go back, and look what happens when I break that vow. Call me a pussy or whatever for whining about this, but I want to see how well you take it when this happens to you. And it will if you play on PokerStars. Anyway, to wrap this up, listen to the people on here, they know what they are talking about. Only play on PokerStars if you are a donkey and usually the underdog when you get all your money into the pot, because you will come out a surefire winner on PokerStars.

[HPG ADMIN]

that sucks, especially in a tourney

[BabyDii]

Hello all,

I am just a beginner and only played on the site for about 4 months. I heard many rumours that it would be rigged but I didnt know what to belive.
Today the most amazing thing happened to me sitting at this table I got poket pairs AA, QQ, KK in a row! I try to play properly every time by raising. First 2 times they go all in on me I call. Both had poket 9. Both times another poket 9 on the flop which gave them 4 of a kind! The third time I do it again raise he goes all-in I think alot but i about the money at this point, I was just curious too see so i call with kk ...and what can i see poket 9 again in his hand and a nine on the river! Well I'd really like to belive some other players took such a bad beat 3 times in a row...
Just not to feel lonely!
And to gain my trust in PokerStars again!
Good luck all!

[cue]

I've scanned through each and every poker site forum here and guess what? Virtually the same posts in every one. "It's rigged", "Bad Beat", "improbable", "incredibly bad runs".

So should one conclude that every single poker site is rigged?

No.

Come on. When you consider the 100,000's of hands per hour dealt, it is extremely likely that some seemingly "improbable" events will occur. And very often the victims of these events find their way to forums like these and cry like a baby about how unfair and "rigged" the site is. But if you had postings from every player on the site you'd find that these "call foul" posters would be drowned out.

Life is full of improbabilities, and sometimes it's your life that it happens to.

I've played on PokerStars for 3 months now and have not experienced anything like what I see complained about here....and yes I've had very bad beats, but I've also learned from them and improved my play over time. I've incorporated a lot of discipline and read and re-read poker theory books. The combination of these things and the experience has taught me the difference between a good player and bad player.

Yes, even good players get bad beats, and sometimes often enough that it feels like you're being toyed with.

But don't buy this "site is rigged" argument. I'm sure you complainers have a poker site of preference, but look at the forum for it....betcha you'll find the majority of postings complain about how corrupt it is.

So what can you say?

A lot of these posts seem to imply that even with the "rigged" sites ... YOU GUYS KEEP PLAYING!!

STOP PLAYING POKER IF YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH IT!!!!

[KROOK RAT]

AHWWww...Finally so nice to read a post from one of the owners of PS or another addict even posting denial to himself ! LMAO

[maggiespaw]

I have played at Party Poker and Full Tilt and this site is by far the best. You do not get the bad beats you do at TILT. No wonder they have the best players sponsoring them.

[oilyrealtor]

They're not happy with just the rake. Why should they be when they can triple their profits just by inserting robot players and rigging the hands?

I played twelve single player turbo tourneys, 25+2 entry, yesterday. I saw bad beat after bad beat. In fact if you went in with the best cards you were 65% certain to lose.

I was in one tourney where I observed 9 showdowns of which I was involved in 2. Out of the 9 the best hand won just once.

A few days ago I played 2 tourneys simulatenously..one rather suspcious "player" was in both tourneys, won them both and with 85% bad beats.

Of course it's not just Pokerstars although they're pretty awful and pretty "out front" with some of the outrageous stuff they pull.

SOMEONE PLEASE FIND ME AN HONEST POKER SITE. All I want is a random deal and real human players who don't work for the poker company. I want a poker company that is happy with the rake.

[mikeholdem]

Do not play here for real money. this site is not legit as they claim. I lost my first 3 tournys i played here with ace high flush all of them to str8 flushes, and i also lost 2 more tournys with fullhouses to quads. I played on this site for 2 hours. you can't compare online to casino games in the amount of hands played and the fluctuations that go with them but this was pretty unbelievable. I have been playing poker holdem to be exact weekly for ten years and have never seen a str8 flush in any of my games ever. I have seen quads like 4 times. now I am sure that I have played a lot more hands in ten years of poker play than I played here in two hours. This site is so sad. I also wittnessed ace king vs ace blank multiple times and I would say that ace king lost about 90 percent of the time. also multiple runner runner cards to someone who would call with crap and not even have a draw after the flop would hit perfect turn river to make a powerful hand while risking all their chips to do so knocking the poor guy who flopped trips out of the tournament. It was just rediculous. So if you play here just remember you have been warned.

[billythebody]

I've been a steady customer of online poker since 2004. I have played on several of the sites, including Party Poker, Pokerstars, Full Tilt, and Bodog. After the online-gaming ban was implemented by the United States government, I have been forced to play at Pokerstars for the better part of the last year now. I'm certainly not a professional player, but I'm certainly above average and I definitely know a good hand compared to a bad one. I must say I have come across many of the following gripes I am about to list about Pokerstars on the other sites as well, but since I've played at Pokerstars the most recently, I will refer to that. Here are some observations I have made that I can basically confirm as truth after seeing it happen way too often over the past 3 years:

1. The cash out curse is REAL! I can't tell you how many times I go on a good run, decide to cash out some of my winnings, and then just go down the tubes right after, forcing me to cancel my cashout since I want to continue to play, which then results in me losing everything....forcing me to deposit more eventually.

2. Isn't it a little coincidental that in almost every multi-handed pot, each player hits a big piece of the flop every time? One person will flop top pair with top kicker, another will hit bottom 2 pair, one will be on a flush draw, and the other will be on an open ended straight draw. It's absolutely ridiculous.

3. The river almost always reverses the leader in the hand everytime. No matter how dominating your hand is on the turn, your opponent always hits their one outer to weasle the pot away from you. It's almost a given on Pokerstars, which is often aptly referred to as Riverstars.

I know some pundits say "Aww, you're just a bad poker player" or "Big deal, you got unlucky, deal with it." Sure bad beats take place, whether it's online or in a live casino. For what it's worth, I witnessed my personal worst bad beat last weekend at the Hawaiian Gardens casino. My buddy went all in with 88 and got called by QQ. Flop was Q 2 7 (no flush draw.) My buddy was probably at 1% to win the hand. An 8 came on both the turn and river to overcome all the odds. As you see, I do realize bad beats can happen anywhere, but in the world of online poker, they occur more often than not. Online poker defies all odds and logic. I (used to) love online poker because it gave me the ability to play on my own terms in the comfort of my own home. But after witnessing several years of undeniable proof that the average player can't beat the Pokerstars bots, I highly recommend to anybody thinking about registering with them to reconsider. It will save you lots of money in the long run.

[chelsearule1]

soo many donks on this site i get q8 suited i raise to 60 bb re raise me another 80 i call flop is qj7 i bet he calls turn is 8 i check he bets i call river is 2 i check he bets i call he has 9 20 for straight he re raised me the min pre flop with 9 10 im calling any min raise with any 2 cards but jokerstars like donks,played 7 tourneys and about 500 hands i didnt get a pp higher than 10s even when i try and bluff they are calling me with ace rag rigged site if ur dubm and stupid this site is for u

[mrkromer]

Make no mistake about pokerstars, you can win money there. I used to bitch and moan about horrible donks and rigged games, but then i became patient, found the game I was comfortable with (1 table sit n gos) and am doing much better with cashing and winning. I have to admit I have won more money at live tables, but you're just going to be dealing with a lot more gamblers online than in person, you have to adjust!!!

[stainpouch]

Ok. I've played pokerstars for about four years. I concluded within weeks of starting that the site was rigged, so I don't play for much (I prefer face to face) and have around 13 million fake chips. Lately, it's become such a burden to recharge, it's hardly worth it. The site has a real mix of utter nitwits, geriatric cases, children, drunks, drunken children, and a quite few good players, too.

Here's my tale of high and low. In Omaha H/L I am dealt 10 10 4 4. I raise a bit. Flop: 4 4 5. Quads flop--wonderful. I slow play them, a low chaser or two(I guess) raises some--the pot remains modest but few fold. Turn 10. River 10. Double quads in the same hand. I come from a poker-playin family and I've been at it since I was six--I'm now 53--and friends, this does not happen.

More recently in a holdem tournament I was dealt J2 twenty-two times over about a hour and a half. After the fourth or fifth time I started keeping track--with a record J2 FIVE HANDS IN A ROW. Blinds eventually caught up to me and I began thinking that J2 suited wasn't so bad--but of course it is--but at this point it's hard not to fall into a rage. I sat out and had a cigarette. When I return my luck changes--first hand: A A. I go all in. How do I lose? Jacks full of deuces--but first my aces paired on the flop. These are the most extreme beats I've had--but recently have had MANY MANY MANY very bad ones.

My advice: play face to face--if you're thinking that online poker (or especially pokerstars) will give you the practice you need think again. When you're on the rise PS will flatter you into thinking you're leading a charmed life--when they discover you're not chipping in--they will pull the rug. In addition, playing online causes one to fall into bad habits--you'll start telling--and you'll quit looking for them yourself. But really, the biggest problem with all online poker is that you can't watch eyes on the flop, you can't see the tell--couple that with nitwits and a juiced deck and you might as well pack it in.

PS I walked into my son's room the other day and he and two buddies were all playing PS at the same table with different computers, of course--but they were all running from my single router.

Forget about it.

PS Hey Bad Dog--you're right--well I lost somehow! Two jacks came--he must have hit quads--I was so disgusted I just closed the window and went to bed.

[bad_dog76]

Let me respond to the last poster who posted this;

" When I return my luck changes--first hand: A A. I go all in. How do I lose? Jacks full of deuces--but first my aces tripped on the flop."

I don't understand what that means. If you hit a set of aces on the flop, there is no way possible that jacks full of 2's could beat you in that hand since you'd have aces full. Look this site (and almost every other online site) certainly has some incredibly horrific and inprobable beats but don't lie about it.

[bad_dog76]

Anyone who has played online poker knows there are plenty of donks who call off a chunk of their stack with gut shot and flush draws, bottom pairs, hands like Q6 and J3 suited etc. However, this is extremely helpful in live games.
Because of the online poker boom, I've found I make a lot more $$$$ hitting the casino on weekends.
There are so many people who play the way they play online. Calling off $30 raises with a gut shot straight draw or chasing flush draws to the river and barely EVER hitting. These bad players get a dose of reality when they hit the casino and are swallowed up and embarassed by better players. Online poker helps you in live game action.

[bad_dog76]

I find it very interesting how on these boards you'll get 1 response like this. Where the guy (or gal) calls these other posters "whiners" and "losers" and "if you can't take it quit playing". Why is it hundreds of players from all over the place, who have no connection tell almost the exact same story?
I swear people who come on here and defend the sites are employees of these sites.
Nobody on here thinks their aces can't be cracked or they can't lose to runner, runner. It's the frequency of these events that makes all online poker sites suspicious